Topic: Zero percent interest...actual savings?

[Sterling]

Actually, true bi-weekly payments don't exist for advertised car payments. They are just regular monthly payments cut in half to make the number sound lower. It's rare, but I've seen $400/mo payments advertised as $13/day. It's similar to the same phenomenon that makes retailer price an item at $6.99 instead of $7.00. Because it works.

[JSCC]

Yo guys, remember there are 12 months in a year.
But 26 bi-weeks not 24.
And 52 weeks not 48.

(Message edited by jscc on April 19, 2005)

[jamie1]

Johngenx,don't you just love the "cityford" ad's?
Somehow they always ordered too much stock. Or they won't make this months quota. Or ford has ordered them to sell "X" amount of cars by the end of the month. And you get a holiday trailer and half payments until the new year. Those guys just kill me.

[Sterling]

Their latest ads are just brutal. Their "free holiday trailer" with every purchase is actually a one week rental of a trailer. These are the same guys that a few years ago advertised a "free trip to Florida" that turned out to be the value of the gas that a Focus would burn to get there.

[ghost]

It seemed to me that these kinda tactics are on domestic dealerships. Subaru and BMW were fairly straight forward to us. This is the price of the car and this is the financing/leasing rate for their corresponding months.

[johngenx]

Their "free holiday trailer" with every purchase is actually a one week rental of a trailer.

That does not surpise me at all!  They are liars.  The woman in the ads is the daughter of the owner.  She was an undergrad when I was in grad school years ago, and she was a spoiled brat that most suspected cheated her way through.